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Monday, 13 November 2017

The red hooded girl

My
favourite fairytale is “Red Riding Hood”. There’s so much to read into it, with
hidden meanings. You could say it’s a story of a girl growing up and
meeting strange men, menstruation and loss of virginity. It could also
be a story of werewolves. It certainly is a horror fairytale story. It’s
a challenging story of a young woman that enters a dark forest on her
own, for the purpose of visiting her sick grandmother. One can find many
Goddess related messages, the Maiden healing the Crone, or the girl in
red (sun goddess) encountering the bad wolf (the killer). In Norse
mythology it seems to mirror the story of the wolf, Skoll, that eats the
sun goddess Sol during Ragnarok. The red hooded cloak may also be
looked at as a very different form of symbolism. Red is the colour of
blood, perhaps it means menstrual blood. Also red is the colour of fire. There were ancient priestesses
who wore hooded red robes, such as those of Delphi in the temple of
Apollo. Again, solar related divinity. The wolf being the aggressor,
rapist and destroyer. Little Red Riding Hood may as well be a sun
priestess like Pythia. There were also red priestesses who honoured and
worshipped the goddess Isis. Saint Brigid is often depicted
in a red hooded robe or a red habit. She’s said to be the canonised
goddess Brigid, a fire and sun goddess. So with this, Red Riding Hood
could be seen in many ways and interpretations, from the girl going
through puberty, the healer, the Maiden, priestess and goddess, who
encounters her cosmic enemy, the Wolf.